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GEORGE W. FLOWERS, JACOB C. HAPPERSETT, AND DANIEL W. 'HAPPERSETT,

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Letters Patent No. 74,756, dated February 25, 1868.

IMPROVED BURNING-FLUID.

' TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. FLOWERS, Jason 0. HAPPERSETT, 'an'd DANIED W.'HAP1 EBBETT, of Urbana; Champaign county, in the State of Ohio, bave invented a. new and improved Burning-Fluid, which we call The, Excelsior Illuminator; andwe do hereby declare that. the following is a fnll end exact description thereof.

The Excelsior .I'Iluminator is composed of gasoline, chloride of sodium, iodine, and' qu-icklime, and is com? I pounded as follows: Take one part of cblbride'bi' sodium to two parts of quicklime, andadd iodine to give coloring. Put in' a sufiicient quantity of gasoline to distill the compound then add five parts of gasoline to one of the distillation, when it is ready for use; V t I V The'compound herein described makes a. beautiful, clear and steady light, and can be manufectnred for; from fifteen to twenty cents per gallon. -We do not limit ourselves to the portions in which said ingredients may be compounded to produce similer efi'ects, but they may vany.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent'nf the UnitedStaLtes,-is

The fluid prepared of the materials and substances as lierein described.

GEORGE w. FLOWERS, M00]; 0. HAPPERSETT,

Witnesses: DANIEL W. HA PPERS'ETT.

. J. A. Ennonns,

Joan G. SAWYER. 

